242: Chapter 242 "She Defiled Me."

Tang Ruan looked up and saw a Rabbit Lady with a protruding belly walking toward her.

Subconsciously, she looked up at Heng Zhou, who was on the second floor.

She explained, "It's not like that."

"Oh my goodness!

How can there be a Cub that looks so much like you!

It's simply too adorable!"

The Rabbit Lady saw Guo Guo next to Heng Zhou, her voice filled with affection.

"I want to give birth to a Cub as cute as Tang Ruan too!"

Tang Ruan: ...

Rabbit Lady: "Quick, call your daughter down so I can have a look!"

She took a rabbit doll made of fur out of her storage space.

It was a toy that the Cubs in Rabbit City loved very much.

This one had originally been prepared for the Cub in her own belly.

"Come down quickly, Auntie has a gift for you!" She waved at Guo Guo.

Guo Guo looked at the doll longingly, waiting for Tang Ruan to speak.

"Guo Guo, come down!

Say thank you to Auntie," Tang Ruan said.

"Okay... Mama.

Thank you... Auntie."

Guo Guo could speak more words now, but her speech was very slow, making her sound particularly well-behaved.

The Rabbit Lady's heart was about to melt.

If she weren't unable to jump around right now, she would have leapt and spun in place to express her feelings.

The Rabbit Lady handed the toy to Guo Guo, staring into her beautiful purple eyes and stroking her silky hair.

"She's already calling you Mama, and you still say—he's not your Beast Husband?"

She glanced out of the corner of her eye toward the second floor at Heng Zhou, who also had purple eyes.

Tang Ruan glanced at Guo Guo.

Leaning in to the Rabbit Lady's ear, she whispered, "He really isn't. I adopted Guo Guo."

"Hmph!"

The Rabbit Lady suddenly gave a cold snort.

She reached out and put an arm around Tang Ruan's shoulder.

She whispered in her ear, "Tang Ruan...

When a Cub is born without a contract, the ones who get punished and despised are the Male Beastmen.

There's no need to hide it from me!

The Cub you two have is already so big!

Even a fool can see that the two of you aren't innocent!"

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan: Yeah...

But Fen Tian didn't see it...

Tang Ruan didn't want to say too much to her; saying more would make it easier to let something slip.

She subconsciously raised her eyes and looked at Heng Zhou again.

Heng Zhou probably didn't know yet that she had remembered the fact that they had been together.

She thought he must have been forced at the time.

Or perhaps he had been given something like love-chaos herb.

That's why, when he helped her regain her freedom, he made her forget everything that happened between them.

After returning, he hadn't mentioned what happened in the Jiao Clan either.

He treated her like a sister, yet the two of them had a Cub.

He must feel very guilty!

He must feel very awkward!

So, Tang Ruan also pretended not to know.

"If he really isn't, then I'm taking him!"

The Rabbit Lady's words suddenly jerked Tang Ruan out of her thoughts.

"What?"

She thought she had misheard.

"I'm going up to ask him if he's willing."

Tang Ruan grabbed her. "What about Lang Yu?"

"Lang Yu agrees!

I'm pregnant with a Cub right now, and I happen to need a few more Male Beastmen to take care of me."

The Rabbit Lady patted Tang Ruan's hand away and headed upstairs.

Tang Ruan hurriedly placed Xiao Yi on the table and chased after her.

"He won't do. Do you know who he is?"

"Your Beast Husband?

If he's your Beast Husband, then I won't steal him," the Rabbit Lady said teasingly.

Upstairs, Heng Zhou listened to the conversation between the two of them.

He became inexplicably nervous.

He felt a bit of anticipation that little A-Wu would say, "He is her Beast Husband."

"He's not my Beast Husband!

But you can't take this beastman!" Tang Ruan said anxiously.

Based on her memories and Fen Tian's descriptions...

Heng Zhou was someone who, in the terms of her original world, had a 'psychological obsession with cleanliness.'

He would be extremely repulsed by the approach of people or things he didn't like or wasn't familiar with.

Add to that his own strength.

For those people or things that repulsed him, he usually chose to—make them disappear!

Tang Ruan chased for a few steps and finally caught her.

But the other woman was a step ahead, turning the corner of the stairs and arriving at Heng Zhou's floor.

Suddenly, the Rabbit Lady stopped in her tracks.

She turned back around.

Her eyes were vacant, and her red eyes glowed faintly in the somewhat dark stairwell corner.

"Rabbit Lady!

Rabbit Lady! What's wrong?" Tang Ruan quickly supported her.

The Rabbit Lady stared at Tang Ruan.

"I have to go.

I need to go report the situation of Rabbit City to the Beast King. This is very important."

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan: "Okay, will you be alright alone? Do you need me to accompany you?"

Why did she suddenly change her mind?

Did Heng Zhou do something?

Rabbit Lady: "Do not question the strength of a City Lord."

Tang Ruan: "...Alright."

Although she agreed verbally, Tang Ruan was still uneasy.

She escorted the Rabbit Lady to the entrance of the courtyard.

Lang Yu was waiting for the Rabbit Lady at the gate.

Seeing her come out, he hurriedly reached out to support her.

He was slapped away by the Rabbit Lady.

"Male Beastmen! They will only become stumbling blocks on my path to success!

I want to be the most outstanding City Lord in the Beast Kingdom!

I will develop the Rabbit Tribe into the number one tribe in the Beast World!"

Tang Ruan: ...

She was finally certain that something was wrong with the Rabbit Lady.

She whipped her head around.

She saw the culprit staring blankly at the blue sky overhead, his expression unchanged.

Tang Ruan walked back aggressively.

When she returned, she saw Guo Guo holding her new toy and teasing Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi seemed to really like the fuzzy texture of the rabbit doll, constantly rubbing against it.

"Guo Guo, keep an eye on Xiao Yi, don't let him fall off."

"Mm!" Guo Guo nodded immediately, opening her short arms to hug Xiao Yi.

But now, Xiao Yi's egg was already the size of a human infant.

Hugging it like this completely blocked Guo Guo's vision.

She could only sense her Mama going upstairs in a huff and then dragging Papa into the room.

The moment they entered the room, a Barrier rose.

It must have been Papa's doing.

Guo Guo could no longer perceive anything.

She could only hug Xiao Yi nervously...

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"Heng Zhou, there's something I want to ask you."

Tang Ruan tried to make her tone sound as kind as possible.

Because the person in front of her was not only once her closest friend and relative but also the person who, along with Fen Tian, had sacrificed his life to save her.

Even though he had been reborn.

At that time, they weren't certain if rebirth was actually possible.

Heng Zhou was a bit nervous.

This was the first time in these past few days that Tang Ruan had taken the initiative to speak to him.

He couldn't help but feel some anticipation about what she would say to him.

But his face remained calm, and his tone was indifferent: "What is it?"

"Did you use your Supernatural Ability on that Female Beastman just now?"

Heng Zhou stared at her for two seconds, then turned his head away in disappointment.

"What of it?"

Tang Ruan: ...

What of it?

How could he say it so matter-of-factly?

She remembered that Fen Tian used to be indifferent to the life and death of beastmen as well.

Tang Ruan moved into his line of sight and explained patiently, "She's pregnant with a Cub and shouldn't be overexerted.

If you used your Supernatural Ability on her, can you please undo it for her?"

Heng Zhou's gaze fell outside the window.

He didn't speak.

Just as Tang Ruan thought there was something outside the window, Heng Zhou suddenly spoke—

"She profaned me."

Tang Ruan's eyes widened slightly.

Tang Ruan: Why did he say it as if the Rabbit Lady had done something to him?

"She was just joking with me."

Heng Zhou: "I don't like it."

"Then I'll apologize to you on her behalf."

Heng Zhou's gaze fell on Tang Ruan's face again: "Aren't you angry?"

Tang Ruan: ...

What was she supposed to be angry about?

She actually was quite angry with him, how could he treat her friend like that right from the start, and—

"Heh..." Heng Zhou suddenly let out a light chuckle.

Tang Ruan was startled.

"Up until now, you haven't shown the slightest bit of concern for me."

Tang Ruan suddenly realized that he had been reading her mind the whole time.

Although she didn't like this behavior of his, the urgent matter was to remove the Supernatural Ability from the Rabbit Lady.

"I... I care about you too."

"I will undo it for her," Heng Zhou said suddenly.

Tang Ruan opened her mouth.

She felt that ever since he returned from the Jiao Clan, he had become very gloomy.

When he was trapped, although he was a bit of a "pervert," at least he still smiled.

Could it be that he wasn't used to living here?

Or... after all, he was of the Jiao Clan; was he sad about the decline of the Jiao Clan?

Tang Ruan thought of many things, but she didn't ask any of them.

Because at this moment, Heng Zhou seemed to be entirely shrouded in a haze.

He gave off the feeling that if she said one wrong word, he would take back what he just said.

Adhering to the principle of 'less said, fewer mistakes'...

Tang Ruan nodded slightly: "Thank you."

After she finished speaking, she turned and walked toward the door.

Suddenly, a hand barred her way.